Research using Electronic Enlightenment
Searching tens of thousands of primary documents can reveal personal and unexpected angles on people and events. See our Anniversarial for examples of responses to significant contemporary events.
Search lives
The Search lives page (subscribers only) lets you enter EE through the writers and recipients of letters and the relationships between them, including common occupations.
Search letters
The Search letters page (subscribers only) allows you to search for keywords, to trace a complete exchange of letters between two or more people, and to look for geographical and temporal patterns in news and ideas.
Search sources
The Search sources page (subscribers only) gives the possibility of searching for information on manuscripts, early editions of correspondence, as well as finding previously printed documents by their document number or volume and page.